Plug gets pulled on Echo Park Lake

A bathtub-like ring has appeared around the banks of Echo Park Lake as about a million gallons of water a day is being drained as part of a $65 million water quality improvement project. The water began to be drained last week after some temporary ponds for birds were created and turtles were removed from the lake, according to a city official. It should take about a month to drain the lake’s 26 million gallons of water, which will be treated through the city’s sewer system.

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Has anyone else got bit by mosquitoes a million times this week? I new exactly when they started b/c I had approx 20 bites in 2 days. I feel like I need netting around my balcony…like I live in Florida.

I hope that the renovation of the lake will provide the city with the opportunity to invest in some kind of tableau referencing its historic – and important – part in early film making history. Fatty Arbuckle, Chaplin and Keystone movies were shot in and around the lake (and major studios are just down the road on Glendale), but you’d be hard pressed to find any evidence of that now. C’mon LA wake up to your past and celebrate it in the present.

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